The eternal inner conflict.

Sense of belonging verses sense of freedom.

This is a vast subject but I would try to some it up, I may write more about it in future again.
Say you are walking around and deliberately step into the dog poop, while you walk you stink. Others around smell you and think down about you. Life has its responsibilities, you have to pay attention while walking around and especially you don’t step into the poop with intention. You can’t just say you don’t give a dame about the others around you.
Sense of belonging compels you to care what others think about you.
From the name brand clothing to muscle building to anorexia to suicide bombing they all are related to the sense of belonging.

This phenomenon is so powerful that we do things automatically without asking the questions and while we are abiding by the sense of belonging we think there is no other way. From cheering for your team regardless of the performance to killing and dyeing for your religions or nations regardless of guilt is perfectly normal thing to do.

The opposing thing is the sense of freedom, not giving a dame, it has the potential to make you lose your freedom yet it is called the sense of freedom. From the real jail to the jail of obesity is usually connected to not giving a dame.

These opposing senses are ingrained in the individual naturally yet the individual is given the free will to balance the imbalances. Whether its physical, psychological or spiritual all imbalances are individual’s responsibility. The inner demons are related to being torn apart or having an imbalanced triangle. In the end of the day the individual who uses the free will has more responsibilities than we are taught.

A belonging group would always seek and keep the powers to keep the individual from becoming stronger and questioning everything, so its up to the individual to follow to be a sheep or become a CEO. A CEO who can buy into the politics or question to make a good use of the God given powers of the free will.
You can make life limited or simple by following one or the other sense, but its your duty to balance the inner conflicts or demons individually. For instance, if you join a street gang for protection and security, there is a bigger force out there who is looking for the interest of the whole community which has the power to land you behind the bars. The law and order is required in the human societies and we have more people working against the gangs, thus your security can actually become an insecurity. Naturally the next step you take is to join the community, obviously it is bigger than the gang but it has its limitations as well, because the provincial rules need to be followed. The next comes the federal or national level of community, which also has its limits because the religions spill over the jurisdictions of the nations. Sometime they conflict and sometime they can live in harmony but the power struggle has been always present.

The affiliation with the religions come with its own set of rules as well, thus it is related with the politics of the belonging group. Any thing related to any one particular group of people, is a pure political system for the security and the well being of that particular group.

This is like the animals marking their territories, we are still doing that regardless of the level of our civilization or evolution. This has been around for millions of years, so it is the normal thing for us, thus we can’t or would not think beyond our boundaries. This is the vary reason we always have wars and can’t get together as a humanity, but these days nature is forcing us to think beyond our sense of belonging to one particular group and rethink the politics, because we can’t survive unless we start to pull together as a humanity. From the infectious diseases to global warming to information highway and everything in between is forcing us to think like a connected humanity.

The group politics makes us to live in the ponds with the boundaries yet we qualify as human individuals, who is boundless. Just look at the achievements of the mankind.
With that free will each and everyone of us is a CEO who needs to understand the right side up triangle.
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sense of belonging sense of freedom

The CEO has the power to create a balance or choose a side with choice.

Cheering for your team regardless of the performance is one thing but killing an other human being regardless of the guilt for your sense of belonging is a spiritual crime. As an individual you are responsible for your actions regardless of power of the sense of belonging because you are blessed with the free will.

If you consider yourself as an extension of an ideology or a nation, you have a political identity but spiritual identity comes from becoming a CEO who is connected to the humanity as a whole.

If you choose to be Black, White, Muslim, Christian, American, Canadian or Pakistani, or crusader of gender equality these are your political choices. Sense of belonging to certain group of people whether it is to a gang, gender community, nation or a religion has the potential to make you live in a pond with the boundaries or like a computer without the connection to the internet. just like the justice should be blind we need to look at equal rights for the individual blindly.
You are born to a human family which qualifies you as a human being thus you belong to the humanity since the day you are born, if your parents or community paints you as a part of their belonging group, you are being limited and denied your potential, because potentially you are a human being who is a born CEO. Since you use free will, you have to question if and when you are asked to commit spiritual crimes on the name of your community, nation or religion. You are connected to the humanity by nature first, then your intellect makes you the part of politics of your belonging group which is second and it is you who is the CEO, the balancing entity.